Lao Tzu Quotes
Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.
Quotes to Explore
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
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Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.
